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...real irony of Italian politics, not expressed in the book, is that the PCI is gaining a share in the government only as they stop being agents of reform, as they make backstairs compromises and become corrupt--in short, as they become part of the bourgeois machine they might once have envisioned changing. The communist leader of the metal workers union, Harvard educated Bruno Trentin, proposes rationing meat as a partial solution to the economic crisis--not a reform that would really hit the rich, who can and will get meat anyway. Giorgio Napolitano, vice-secretary of the PCI said...
...Ostia, a Roman suburb, on a strip of earth between huts of corrugated tin. That he had been beaten to death in a brawl with a (male) prostitute, a seventeen-year-old streetwalker. Monday Rome was in an uproar. L'Unita, the paper of the Paritito Communista Italiano (PCI) glorified Pasolini the poet; "Il Tempo," the paper of the Movimento Sociale Italiano (MSI, the neofascist party) vilified Pasolini the homosexual. Posters proclaimed the martyrdom of a radical poet...
...found only intellectual answers to the economic and political questions his social conscience posed. His artistic sensibility searched out paradoxes, parallels, aesthetically pleasing statements (e.g., "we have come to the end of pity"). But a true social reformer cannot afford to let ethical problems become aesthetic attitudes. Though the PCI tried to claim Pasolini after his death, his true political orientation was conservative, even reactionary...
...mediocre poet, an opportunist filmmaker capitalizing on the Roman desire for circuses with lots of blood and sex, and if his death was such a senseless piece of violence--why all the fuss? Was the shock expressed by all Italy, and especially Rome, merely political propaganda of the PCI, melodramatics of the intellectual elite, and bloodthirsty scan-dalmongering on the part of the greater public? Of course all this contributed to the clamor, but there was something else behind the strong reaction of the students who marched through Rome in mourning, the political activists who pasted up posters all over...
...education in a fascistic system and are now confronted with the demands of the proletariat for a decent life. Pasolini was a leftist even though his older brother was killed by a leftist group in a vicious slaughter--which turned out to be a tragic mistake. He supported the PCI despite the fact that they tried to disown him when his homosexuality first became known, only to reclaim him again when "Ragazzi di Vita made him famous...